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Broadcom is going to acquire Brocade

3 November 2016
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Broadcom has announced a definitive agreement under which it will acquire Brocade merging networking with storage competency to build stronger company. Broadcom believes the SAN business is a strong complement to its portfolio of enterprise storage and networking solutions, also with the grow of converged storage solutions. Due to competitive overlaps, Broadcom plans to divest the IP Networking business. Brocade’s intention is to assist Broadcom in finding a buyer that will continue to invest in the strong portfolio that Brocade created.

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SonicWall reborn

2 November 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes As announced some months ago, the Dell Software division has been sold to Francisco Partners and Elliot Management. This division include Dell SonicWall (from the acquisition of more than 4 years ago), but also Quest (from another acquisition) and several other brands. Now it’s clear that SonicWall brand reborns as a stand-alone company: SonicWall announced the launch of independent operations that it’s good for a security company (better to be as independed as possible). Bill Conner is new President and CEO of this company. He hs spent bulk of his career in the cybersecurity industry, […]

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#TFDx at VMworld EU 2016 – Nimble Storage

25 October 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutes During the last Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld EU 2016 (where I was invited as a delegate) I’ve got the opportunity to learn the latest news from Nimble Storage. Rich Fenton (UK&I Systems Engineering Manager) and Nick Dyer (Senior Systems Engineer) gave us a great overview of the technology, but also some news and future trends idea.

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How VCSA rise the level of vCenter

19 October 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The new release of VMware vSphere 6.5 will finally add some interesting news of the vCenter Server. Not only the virtual appliance (Linux based) version is not fully featured (was almost in version 6.0, but still with the big limit of VMware Update Manager available only for Windows), but now has some features only for this version and the Windows one become the limited version. First sign was the Fling for the migration from a vCenter edition to the VCSA: the official Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Migration Tool which is part […]

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Windows Server 2016 is now available (with Docker support)

12 October 2016
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Finally after five technical preview, Windows Server 2016 is now officially in GA. For more information see the Ultimate Guide to Windows Server 2016 or the new features of this OS. Remember the big change in licensing: now cores will count for the total number of needed licenses and you can start to re-consider also servers with one socker and lot of cores in your design. You can download the evaluation and experience first-hand how Windows Server 2016 can work for you: Download Windows Server 2016 evaluation Another way to try, test or use it, […]

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Caringo Launches Swarm 9

11 October 2016
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Caringo has announced Swarm 9, extending the most advanced object storage platform with enhanced features focused on simplifying tenant and data management at scale. Swarm 9 features a next-generation UI, data encryption, and comprehensive protection policies making it even easier for organizations to provide storage services to their end-users. Swarm 9 comes on the heels of SwarmNFS, the first lightweight file converter to use up to 80 percent fewer resources than traditional gateways and bring the benefits of object storage to NFS applications. With SwarmNFS, Swarm 9 features are available to organizations with no disruption […]

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Disk Drill: a data recovery tool

7 October 2016
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Disk Drill is an file undelete for Windows and MacOSX that permit to recover your data in a matter of minutes and in an easy way. Any storage device you can connect to your Windows PC can be scanned by our free data recovery software. The free version recovers up to 500MB, otherwise you can buy the PRO or Enterprise version.

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